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'THEY ARE COMING HOME." 




Salt Lake City and County offered more than 8000 of her 
best manhood in the cause of World Freedom. 



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THE SENTINEL OF THE TRIP OVER TWO MILES INTO THE OZONE. 
THE WORLD BELOW. 



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Story by 
WALTER J. SLOAN 

WONDERLAND 

Plans for an economic scenic road system in Salt 
Lake County that will afford the greatest one day 
automobile trip in the world are ready. 

It will be such a trip as no other part of the earth 
can offer to the tourist, the sightseer, the lover of 
nature, or the student of industry. 

Nowhere else in the world can such oppor- 
tunities be found, a sea, a lake, the point where 
the first American flag was raised in the western part 
of the United States, — then foreign soil. A trip that 
will mean a visit to the only canyon that is at the very 
door of a great city, over a part of the most noted trail 
in all the history of the great west, within sight of one 
of the greatest silver camps in the world, to the tops of 
mountain peaks that raise their snowy heads more than 
10,000 feet above sea level, to mountain lakes, the crys- 
tal waters of which mirror the snowcapped and pine- 
covered peaks towering hundreds of feet above. 

Down a canyon filled at every yard with the won- 
ders of nature ; across a valley, once a desert, but now 
a garden of verdure and agricultural wonders; on to 
one of the greatest copper camps known to man, past 
a great powder mill and on to one of the world wonders 
in the milling of crude metals. 

Then to that mystic wonder. The Dead Sea of 
America and over a perfect driveway to the center 
of the metropolis of the Inter-mountain country. 

Sounds like a dream ? 

But it is not. 



It is practicable and feasible. 

The cost would be so small that were such oppor- 
tunities offered to any other big city in the world the 
work would have been done long ago. 

Plans for this greatest of all one day sightseeing 
trips in the world have been prepared by Salt Lake 
County Commissioner Charles F. Stillman. 

They will be the culmination of years of personal 
travel over the proposed route together with the idea, 
long in embryo, of giving a one day trip that could 
not be equalled on earth. 

Men who have traveled much to whom the plans 




EAGLE GATE. 

have been outlined declare that there is nothing like 
it in the world from a historical and scenic standpoint. 

While not taking one iota of praise from any 
scenic road in the United States or Europe they ac- 
claim that the plans will furnish the most unique, 
scenic and interesting trip that is known to man. 

What and where will this trip be ? 




ONE OF HUNDREDS OF ENCHANTING SPOTS IN CITY CREEK 
CANYON. 




ENSIGN PEAK 

Where the American Flag was first raised on what was 
then foreign soil. 



THE START. 

The plans call for one of two starting points in 
Salt Lake City. 

One the "Monument corner" where stands a shaft 
of granite and bronze in memory of Brigham Young 
and the pioneers who made the most famous "track" in 
all the history of the world; more than 1000 miles 
across almost trackless plains and less than little 
known mountain passes to the Salt Lake valley, where 
they arrived July 24, 1847 ; or the start of this wonder 
of wonder trips may be made from the spot where irri- 
gation was first practiced by the Anglo-Saxon race in 
America, the corner of Third South and State street. 
Either starting point would have its historic interest. 

From "The Monument" the sightseer will go one 
block east. From the spot where irrigation had its 
birth in America he would go three blocks north, the 
first would turn to the left, the second go straight 
ahead. Both would pass under an arch at the top of 
which is a carved image of the American eagle, the 
emblem of freedom, the original of which was placed 
there more than seventy years ago by Brigham Young. 

To the left is the official home of the president of 
the Mormon church, built by Brigham Young. On the 




OFFICERS' QUARTERS. FORT DOUGLAS. 





'THIS IS THE PLACE.' 



top of this rather low two-story building is a carved 

"Beehive" the emblem of Utah, signifying ''Industry." 

Less than 100 yards north of the ''gate" the trip 

will call for a sharp turn to the right; less than 100 





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yards and another turn, this time to the left, and 
within a half mile you are at the mouth of the most 
beautiful canyon to be found at the very door of any 
great city in the world. 

INTO THE MOUNTAINS. 

In less than a half mile you have left the center 
of a city of more than 125,000 inhabitants and are in 
the heart of the mountains, the canyon from which 
came the water for the first irrigation and still one of 
the principal water sources of the city. 

Within a few years a rehabilitated forest which 
will cover from base to top of every mountain with 




LOOKING INTO MOUNTAIN DELL. THE LAST RESTING SPOT 

BEFORE THE END OF THE 1000-MILE TRIP OF OXEN AND 

HANDCARTS. 

stately pine — a part of the general improvement plans 
of City Commissoner C. Clarence Neslen. 

A HISTORIC PEAK. 

This part of the trip would take the sightseer 
about ten miles out of the general route. The plan will 
mean the leaving of the canyon bed at a point about 
two miles from the mouth and by an easy road up the 
left side of the canyon to Ensign peak, north of the city 
from which the American flag was first unfurled to 
the breeze on the then foreign soil of Mexico. This in- 
cident happened July 26, 1847, two days after the 



pioneers arrived in Salt Lake valley and nearly a year 
before Mexico relinquished her rights to the territory. 

Here you will have an opportunity to salute ''Old 
Glory" and from the summit, at the foot of the flag 
pole, may be had a view of the entire valley, the Great 
Salt Lake, with at least three of its islands, almost at 
your feet the $3,000,000 capitol of Utah, less than three 
blocks below the spires of the Mormon temple, the 
turtle dome of the Tabernacle, the business section with 
its skyscrapers, the residential section of a great city 
and to the southeast and to the southwest — but wait, 
we are going there on this one day wonder trip. 

Back to City Creek canyon; over the new north 
boulevard, already in excellent shape, with a splendid 




A PART OF SALT LAKE CITY'S WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM. 

view of the south and west part of the city and valley. 
The road is fine and within three miles you will 
be at Fort Douglas, one of the most beautifully located 
and healthful military posts in America, and which 
the government has promised shall soon be one of the 
finest in the country. 



THE OLD TRAIL. 

Less than a half mile of driving from the center of 
the military post will bring you to the mouth of the 
most historic canyon in the west. 




ETERNAL SNOW. 



Emigration canyon, the end of the "Old Mormon 
Trail." 

The road up this canyon is in first-class shape 
for a trip to Pinecrest Inn, located in the tops of the 
mountains among the pines. We have been less than 
two hours on the trip, we who have made an early 
morning start are now ready for breakfast. If 
the tourist does not care for breakfast at Pinecrest 
Inn there are plenty of shady spots, pure water and 
wood. Build your own camp fires and cook as you 
please. 

You may feel that you have seen enough to last 
you a life time and that life is worth living after all, 
but you have only started on this great trip. Drop 






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NATURE'S MIRROR. 



down the canyon to the little, low, red, erosioned 
hill to the east and again pick up "The Old 
Mormon Trail," which looks as if it could lead to noth- 
ing but desolation. Within two miles you will drop into 
a little mountain enclosed valley and be on the spot 
where the original pioneers halted on the night of July 
28, 1847, "Mountain Dell." 

Here you will turn to the right. 




LAKE PHEOBE. A SISTER OF BLANCHE. 



A CITY FARM. 

The greater part of Mountain Dell is owned by Salt 
Lake City. Not alone is it one of the water supplies of 
the city but there is a municipal farm, one of the larg- 
est in the country, which each year yields to the city a 
handsome revenue. From the mouth of the "Dell" you 
will turn, sharp, to the right and go to the new state 
highway, a part of the Lincoln highway, and within 
sight of the new 300,000,000 gallon reservoir, another 
part of the city water system, and then on the new 
highway to the concrete bridge at the mouth of Lamb's 
canyon. 

A PRETTY CANYON. 

Lamb's canyon is one of the prettiest and least 
known canyons in Utah. It will be a surprise to thous- 
ands of motorists, to say nothing of tens of thousands 
of Salt Lakers to learn that there are more than a score 
of summer homes in this little-known canyon. 

It is from "Forest Home" in Lamb's canyon that 
the real plans of this one day great trip come into 
play. So far with the exception of two short stretches, 
that from City Creek canyon to Ensign peak and over 
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from near the head of Lamb's canyon that the real 
road building will commence. The route is so easy 




SILVER LAKE AND BRIGHTON. 

and will cost so little that it is a wonder it has not been 
built long ago. 

THE WORLD BELOW. 

Following the natural contour of the mountains the 
road will go to the top of the divide, then drop down 
a little and past the head of Mill Creek canyon, then to 
the top of the divide again and to the top of Mt. Majes- 
tic, one of the highest mountain peaks in Salt Lake 
county. Here you will stop. For nowhere in all this 
world is there such a panorama. You will feel to say, 
"The world is at my feet;" ''I am but a pigmy." To do 
justice to the scene would bankrupt the EngHsh 
language. 

From this mighty eminence of nature you may look 
into one of the greatest silver camps in the world, 
Park City. 

You may look into Salt Lake, Summit, Wasatch, 
Morgan, Utah, Juab, Davis and Tooele counties ; far to 
the south you will see the silent snow-capped peak of 




WHERE FLOWS A CRYSTAL STREAM. 




♦JONES' HUMP'' OLD ROAD IN BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON. 




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Mt. Nebo, one of the highest peaks in the Wasatch 
range. 

To the southwest there is a fresh water lake, to the 
northwest the Dead Sea of America. Between them 
stretches a silver thread, lost now and then, but easily- 
picked up again with a good glass. It is the river Jor- 
dan running between Utah lake and the Great Salt 
Lake. The Bible student will only have to picture, in 
mind, the lake, sea and river turned from north to south 
to have the Sea of Galilee, the river Jordan and the 
Dead Sea of Palestine. 

As you stand on this high pinacle, you will see, to 
your left, just a few miles away, the mountain which 
owns one of the few living glaciers in the United States, 
Mt. Timpanogos. 

Far below to the west, the southwest and the 
northwest, with a good glass, may be seen what looks 
like little white lines, now in sight, then disappearing 
and then in view again. You will learn, if you do not 
know, that these are the life arteries of fields and farms 
through which you will later pass and in your soul 
you will say, *'It is well that men and women came 
before us and made it possible for us to live as we 
now live." 




AT THE HEAD OF "THE STAIRS. 



As you stand on this pinacle surrounded by the 
majesties of nature and look afar off to the west, your 
mind may be diverted to the somber things of hfe. 




A WINTER SCENE IN BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON. 

ROADS. 



BUT GOOD 



You will see smoke arising. It will tell you, in its way, 
of one of the most wonderful copper mines in the world , 
and if your ears are attuned aright you may hear, 
three times a day, muffled sounds which will tell you 
of tons of high explosives being set off. Later you will 
hear these sounds more distinctly and at close range. 



INTO THE HEART OF NATURE. 

From the summit of the Wasatch range the road 
will lead you into the head of Big Cottonwood canyon, 
past two lakes, nature's reservoirs, which supply a part 
of the pure water system of Salt Lake City, and on to 
Brighton at the head of the canyon. It is time for 
lunch. This may be had at a first-class hotel, at the 
cottage of a friend, at your own cottage — for many Salt 
Lakers have their summer homes at this beautiful 
spot — or you may take your lunch as you did the morn- 
ing repast, out in the woods and near to nature. Lunch 
over you will commence the descent of the canyon. 
There are good roads now but they are to be improved. 



Your attention will be directed to great mining proper- 
ties in the canyon, which within the last few years have 
made many men rich. You will pass the * 'stairs," once 
a natural barrier to traffic, to the upper end of the 
canyon. 

You will cross and re-cross a stream, now quiet,, 
now turbulent, and now madly rushing in its flight. 

On through the granite rocks and mountain crags 
it rushes — ever on. 

For what ? 

In part to help quench the thirst of more than 
100,000 people. 

In part to make electric power that more than 




THE OLD PAPER MILL, ERECTED 1882. 



125,000 men, women and children might see after the 
light of day has passed. 

In part to water hundreds of farms and make a 
once desert ''blossom as a rose." 

And, in the finale, with what life is still left it 
will try to quench the thirst of the Dead Sea of 




BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS LIES THE VALLEY OF 
OPPORTUNITIES. 




WHERE SUGAR GROWS. 





WHERE SUGAR IS MADE. 



America, the waters of which refuse to become fresh 
no matter how much it may drink. 

The tourist or pleasure seeker may take Httle or 
no notice of the waters of the stream, or of its brief 
but important hfe story, but you cannot fail to take 
notice of the beauties of Big Cottonwood canyon. Nor 
will the business man, the seeker for financial advance- 
ment, the man or woman to whom a wonderful and 
magnificent nature picture is presented fail to rejoice 
as they leave the mouth of the canyon, past the old 
paper mill ; turn to the left and get another view of the 
"Valley of Opportunities." 

"We have seen enough in a few hours to last for 
a lifetime" some may say. But continue. You may 
have seen enough of the beauties and wonders of na- 
ture in the trip so far to last you a lifetime, but finish 
the trip. Tell the story to your children and to those 
you may meet through life that they may see and like- 
wise enjoy, for the trip has more wonders, more diver- 
sified, than any other trip in the world. Miss not one 
bit of it. 




WHY ADAM FELL. 



From the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon the 
road will turn to the south. A few miles and you will 
pass the mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon, from 



which came the granite for the great Mormon temple 
and many of the big buildings in the city. Up this can- 
yon, which, however, is not a part of this one day trip, 




"THE STAFF OF LIFE." 

is located the mining camp of Alta with the once 
famous Emma mine, that was sold to an EngHsh syn- 
dicate for $5,000,000 in the days when mining was al- 
most unknown in Utah. Alta is still a busy camp with 
many dividend paying mines. 

A MINING WONDER. 

The new road will take you on to Draper in the far 
southeast end of the county. Here you will turn west 
and north and on through the busy agricultural dis- 
trict to Riverton and the mining camp of Lark. From 
here we will go over the mountains to Copperf ield at the 
head of Bingham canyon, one of the greatest copper 
camps in the world, in time to witness operations on a 
mountain of ore which it is estimated will take at 
least a half century to remove at the rate of 30,000 
tons a day. One mine alone has already paid over 
$92,000,000 in dividends. 

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TO WILD LIFE. 




'MY ANCESTORS SAVED THE PIONEERS FROM STARVATION.' 



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'WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUMPKIN AND THE CORN IS 
IN THE SHOCK" 



MORE WONDERS. 

Not a bit of it on this one day wonder trip ; we are 
not yet through. 





BEFORE. 

From the mouth of Bingham canyon the road will 
"skirt" the foothills of the Oquirrh range of mountains, 
a child of the Wasatch and a grand child of the Rockies, 
past the great powder plant at Bacchus and on to Mag- 
na, Arthur and Garfield, where are located the greatest 
ore reducing plants of the kind in the world. 





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AFTER. 



Just a few short miles, five or six, over a level 
road, past the potash plants and salt works and we 
are at Saltair ; a dip in the Dead Sea of America ; sup- 
per; a dance and then over the re-constructed speed- 
way to Salt Lake City. 

SHORT TRIPS. 

The entire trip means a drive of but 125 miles. It 
can be made with ease and comfort in one day with 
ample time for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 

But this new wonder trip will have many side fea- 
tures ; it may be limited or extended to suit the fancy, 
it may be made in part one day, continued another, and 





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SO on until it has covered far more ground than is con- 
tained in this description, or it may be made in a num- 
ber of short trips. For instance, those who do not care 
to take the entire trip in one day could leave out that 
part of the trip which includes the *'01d Mormon Trail'' 
and Mountain Dell and go direct south from Fort 
Douglas to Parley's canyon and then take up the trip; 
or one could make the first part of the trip to the head 
of Lamb's canyon, then to Park City and back over 
the state highway through Parley's canyon, or all of 
the trip could be made to the mouth of Big Cottonwood 



canyon and then over a choice of several routes, all 
good roads, back to the city; or still again the trip 
could be made to the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon 




WHERE HIGH EXPLOSIVES ARE MADE. 

and then across the valley to Saltair; in fact, the side 
trips are so many and varied that it is impossible to 
tell of all of them in the short space allowed. 

While this new scenic route will be a joy to every 
tourist, sight or pleasure seeker, together with every 
lover of nature, it is but a part of the road plans of 
the County Commissioners. 

What ! more ? Yes, much more. 

County Surveyor George G. Bywater, has already 
prepared plans for the greatest permanent road build- 
ing campaign ever undertaken in Salt Lake county. 



PERMANENT ROADS. 

These plans call for the building of not less than 
sixty miles of permanent roads in the county below the 
mountain ranges; these roads are for business and 
commercial purposes; to link every section of the 
county more closely together and make communication 
more easy. 



The doctrine of good roads no longer need be 
preached to the people of Salt Lake county or Utah. 
The story of the present good roads in the county and 
state are ample proof of what they mean to every class 
of people. The constant demand is ''more good roads." 

While it is true that little or no hard surfaced 
roads were built during 1918, the reason was obvious, 
the war. With the end of the titanic struggle will come 
the greatest good road construction era in the history 
of the United States. Every state and nearly every 
county from Maine to California will take part in this 
great work. It is the plans of Commissioner Stillman 
to see that Salt Lake County takes a leading part in 
this most important improvement. 

That many miles of the proposed permanent 
roads will be built at the earliest possible date 
is already assured by an agreement between the state 
road commission and the comissioners of Salt Lake 
county. 

Both of these assured roads are of vital importance 
to the future growth of Salt Lake County ; in fact, they 
would have been built during 1918 had it not been for 
the war. 




THE UTAH COPPER PLANT AT MAGNA. 



STATE HIGHWAYS. 

The first and most important of these two 
stretches is that from the present end of the hard 




OLD SHORE LINES OF LAKE BONNEVILLE. 

surface road on State street, Mid vale junction, to the 
Salt Lake-Utah County line. The second assured per- 
manent road will be from Hunter to Magna. Both of 
these roads are state highways and the state will join 
with the county in their construction. Another state 
highway, in which it is expected the state will join with 
the county in hard surfacing during the present year, is 
from Fifth East to Redwood road on Twenty-first 
South. 



COUNTY HIGHWAYS. 

In addition to these there are in the county nearly 
fifty miles of roads which Commissioner Stillman hopes 
to have hard surfaced within the coming two years. 

The most impor' \t of these proposed permanent 
highways is that froiix Midvale Junction to Bingham, 
The permanent improvement of this road is not alone of 
importance to the people of Bingham but to the busi- 
ness and social interests of the entire county. The com- 



missioner of roads and bridges will urge that this be 
made a part of the good road work of 1919. 

Second in importance and distance will be the 
proposed hard surfacing of Redwood road, or Sixteenth 
West, from Twenty-first South to Riverton. This road 
will give easy access to the southwest part of the county 
with its sugar factory and rich farming district. Its 
improvement will mean that the farmer or business 
man would have at least two good roads from the south- 




WHERE ORE IS SMELTED. 
UTAH COPPER PLANT AT GARFIELD. 



west to the city, over the Midvale-Bingham route, or 
north to Twenty-first South. 

The third of the proposed permanent roads, in dis- 
tance and importance, will be from Magna, the end of 
the state highway on the west, to the Salt Lake-Tooele 
County line. With this connecting link and the link 
from Mid vale junction to the Salt Lake-Utah County 
line, Salt Lake City and County will be connected by 
hard-surfaced roads with the outside counties on the 
north, south and west. The road to the east, to the Salt 
Lake-Summit County line, is a state highway and is al- 
ready semi-hard-surfaced with the exception of the new 
"over the hill" cut-off, which will leave Parley's canyon 
about two miles above the city reservoir at the mouth 



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UTAH'S $3,000,000 CAPITOL. 

of the canyon. This part of the highway will be open 
to traffic early in the spring of 1919. 

From the standpoint of agricultural resources, 
country homes and scenery the southeast part of the 
county is one of the most important in the state. To 
care for the fast growing traffic it is the plan of Com- 
missioner Stillman to extend the present hard sur- 
faced road on Highland drive to the mouth of Big Cot- 
tonwood canyon. 

These plans will give Salt Lake County permanent 




MORMON TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE. 



roads from the north, east, south and west but will still 
leave certain sections uncared for. 

To provide permanent roads for these sections a 
hard surfaced road will be built from Hoiliday to Tay- 
lorsville, and from Draper to Riverton. 

IN CONCLUSION. 

In discussing the plans Commissioner Stillman 
said, "There are a number of reasons why these im- 
provements should be made as soon as possible. It 
has been proven, beyond a shadow of doubt, that good 
roads mean added prosperity to all; the farmer gets his 




SALT. MOUNTAINS AND CLOUDS. 



products to the market quicker and cheaper, the con- 
sumer gets the benefit; the business man can reach 
places which he must visit with a saving of time, en- 
ergy and cost; the motorist or pleasure seeker can 
get to some of the most attractive scenery in the 
county, or to the outlying counties with the least cost 
of time and labor. Within the next few months we are 
going to have thousands of our boys from "over there" 
return home. I do not mean that they will wish to, or 
should work on roads, but the days of reconstruction of 
our national life and methods are at our door; there 
are going to be thousands of men who will not alone 



want work, but who must have work. We must have 
no idle men in our midst. They must be given employ- 
ment and that employment must be of the constructive 
kind — work which will mean a living to them and some- 
thing for the future. As Americans, the people of this 
country will build for the future in every enterprise in 
which they may be engaged. One of the most import- 
ant will be good roads. I believe that the majority of 
the people of Salt Lake county are ready and anxious 
to do their part in this important work." 




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